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Quotes About Anticipation

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
P.S. I will give you a clue about the person I'm interested in. She gets a very cute dimple in her right cheek when she's trying not to smile. She has a very cute way of pronouncing th , and she wears a cute hat on cold days, which is like a French beret. I once had an appointment with her to Gaze into the Girl's Eyes, which she went and cancelled on me, and I've been waiting all term for a chance to Kiss the Girl.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Trying to force Seneca's approach: believe the worst and you will be prepared when it takes place; by believing the worst, he actually thought he was earning a happy surprise.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Surely that couldn't be the end of her first kiss? It seemed sort of pointless, to do that once without doing it again.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
~ Jacqueline Carey
He raised and lowered his eyebrows several times as if he were planning to do something Mom would not approve of. Something fun. Something exciting. Jessie felt her stomach flip then flop.
~ Unknown
I'm gonna kiss you in each room," he said. "Then it's dinnertime." "How many rooms to this place?" Ellie asked, her eyes wide. Miah shrugged. "I'm not counting.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I love that people think the world is even halfway ready for what we about to bring.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
He looked up abruptly, almost as though he had sensed her entering the room. She found herself suddenly afraid that he had the ability to do exactly that.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
We speak of it like it is always possible, but we never truly expect it.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
ceux qui crèvent d'ennui, le dimanche après-midi parce qu'il voient venir le lundi et le mardi, et le mercredi , et le jeudi et le vendredi et le samedi et le dimanche apres midi
~ Jacques Prévert
His death was imminent and we were all anticipating it, including him, but we never gave any thought to the fact that this was true for all of us, too: our death was imminent, only we were not anticipating it ... yet.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
~ James A. Baldwin
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
~ James A. Michener
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
~ Luis Bunuel
Éramos tão vorazes, no começo, que qualquer coisa menos que o mundo equivaleria a um coito interrompido.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
The Busy Road" I am so used to it by now that when the traffic falls silent, I think a storm is coming.
~ Lydia Davis
A woman has written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually promises to be interesting.
~ Lydia Davis
Voltei aos cremes e às saunas, tirei dos armários meus vestidos brancos, tenho que estar pronta porque hoje ou amanhã ou daqui a um mês. Ou um ano. Ele vai voltar.
~ Unknown
GUESS ONE DAY
~ Unknown
At length the long-wished-for fall of 1856 arrived — long wished for because I could not be sure of an income adequate to support a wife until I was admitted to the bar, and I could not be admitted to the bar until I was twenty-one.
~ Lyman Abbott
No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
~ Lynda Barry
baby-sitting their roast in his oven? Who knew what he would be doing for them next?
~ Lynn Austin
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
~ Lynn Johnston